#legislature

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#authors #best #churches #colleges #common

But, you know, all I can do is submit my budget and then make the case to the Legislature to act. ↗

— George Pataki

#budget #case #i #i can #know

If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#crime #current #imposed #invisible #judges

Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees. ↗

— Earl Warren

#legislatures #people #represent #trees

But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#island #legislature #most #originally #perfect

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#legislature #man #now #now and then #sent